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I've been very pleased with the Nursing Care Plans book put out by Doenges & Moorhouse. I've always gotten good reviews from my instructors on my care plan. You can do a broader search to find a lower price (a used one, etc.), but even Target has a listing for it:
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/601-4932872-3962525?asin=0803609469
Fa davis nursing careplans 6ed is great. I save huge amounts of time by doing mine in an excel spread sheet. That way when you have to redo it allyou have to do is change your mistakes and when its aproved you save it to your harddrive and a floppy disk for backup. then the next time you have a care plan for risk for infection r/t invasive procedure just open it up and change you subjective and objective data and fine tune it for that pt's. my first set of 4 care plans took 12 hours to complete my second set of 4 took 2hrs. Not to mention that the instructers appreciate the neat and easy to read careplan.
I'd go with Carpenito's Nursing Diagnosis, 9th edition. I also have the Ackley and Ludwig but they didn't have the interventions in it.
Is your Ackley and Ladwig the 6th edition? Because I'm looking at mine and it has tons of interventions. This book is fantastic and was recommended by our instructors.
I have not looked at these sites recently but hope they will help:
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I have a care plan due in a few weeks and another next month. and from what i read we have to write a lot of objectives and interventions for each nursing diagnosis alone. and there are 6 diagnosis for each CP.
and so i am looking for a nursing care plan book w/ diagnosis, that has goals, objectives, nursing internventions-rationales. i'm not sure which book is good, but i am looking at this one:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0323016278/qid=1078601096/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-3481212-9667310
any other books that you would recommened is appreciated.